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Monday, October 31, 2016

Laurie (L.C.) Lewis was born and raised in rural Maryland where she and her husband still reside. She admits to being craft-challenged, particularly lethal with a glue gun, and a lover of sappy movies.The Dragons of Alsace Farm, her eighth published novel, was inspired by a loved one’s struggle with dementia. Her women’s fiction novels includeUnspoken(2004) andAwakening Avery(2010), written as Laurie Lewis. Using the pen name L.C. Lewis, she wrote the five volumes of her award-winning FREE MEN and DREAMERS historical fiction series, set against the backdrop of the War of 1812:Dark Sky at Dawn(2007),Twilight’s Last Gleaming(2008),Dawn’s Early Light(2009),Oh, Say Can You See?(2010), andIn God is Our Trust, (2011).

She is currently completing a political suspense novel planned for a late spring 2017 release, and in March 2017 she will release a romance novel for Gelato Book’s “Destination Billionaire’s Series.” She loves to hear from readers, and she can be contacted at any of these locations.

Agnes, an 82-y-o French WWII survivor will teach Noah and Tayte the greatest lessons of their lives:

The strength of tested love.

The promise of new love.

The power of family love.

And the courage each requires.

In need of his own redemption, Noah Carter finally confronts his childhood hero, the once-beloved uncle who betrayed him. Instead of vengeance, he offers forgiveness, also granting Uncle John a most curious request—for Noah to work on the ramshackle farm of Agnes Deveraux Keller, a French WWII survivor with dementia.

Despite all Agnes has lost, she still has much to teach Noah. But the pair’s unique friendship is threatened when Tayte, Agnes’s estranged granddaughter, arrives to claim a woman whose circumstances and abilities are far different from those of the grandmother she once knew.Items hidden in Agnes’s attic raise painful questions about Tayte’s dead parents, steeling Tayte’s determination to save Agnes, even if it requires her to betray the very woman she came to save, and the secret her proud grandmother has guarded for seventy years.The issue strains the fragile trust between Tayte and Noah, who now realizes Tayte is fighting her own secrets, her own dragons. Weighed down by past guilt and failures, he feels ill-equipped to help either woman, until he remembers Agnes’s lessons about courage and love. In order to save Agnes, the student must now become the teacher, helping Tayte heal—for Agnes’s sake, and for his.

Tayte stared back at the table, glancing at Noah, who had folded his napkin into an origami shape. “For the most part, you’re still a mystery to me, but I have observed a few things. For instance, I know you play with things when you’re nervous. Am I terrible for pointing that out to you?”

Noah gave a comic huff as his tight lips pressed into a timid smile. “It’s an old habit. My father ran dinner like a prison mess hall. No joking. No talking. I was hardheaded. I ended more than a few meals with a backhanded slap that landed me on the floor. After a while, I realized if I kept my hands occupied, my mouth was less likely to get me into trouble. When I started fiddling with the napkin or the salt and pepper shakers, my father knew he had intimidated me.”

“I’m sorry. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be hit. I was never even spanked.”

She reached a hand across the table to touch his wrist and felt the leather band. “You always wear that. Is it sentimental?”

He slid forward and met her eyes. “Are you sure you want to know me, Tayte? Really know me?”

“Yes.” She didn’t hesitant in her reply.

He rolled up his sleeve and watched her face melt in sympathy as the round pocked scars appeared within the tattoos. Then he unfastened the band, revealing the healed cuts on his wrists. He pointed to his arms. “These were gifts from my father.” Then he touched his wrist. “And this is how I dealt with them.”

Tayte covered his wrist with her hand. “Is that all of them?”

He shook his head. “There are more burns on my shoulders and my back.”

She gave a silent gasp. “Oh, Noah. He was a terrible father.”

The comment was underscored by a firm squeeze of Noah’s wrist, and then the removal of her hand. Noah missed her touch immediately. The warmth. The connection. He rolled his sleeve back down, savoring the memory.

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Friday, October 28, 2016

With a passion for wholesome adventure, Miki Bennett is the
author of two contemporary women's fiction series - A Florida Keys Romance and
Camping In High Heels. A deep love of the beach and life-long experience in the
RV and camping world led her to write romance novels that bring humor and
paradise to readers' finger tips.

Beyond her beautiful writing skills, she is an artist and
craftswoman, and has earned numerous awards for such. Her stories touch the
hearts of not only beach lovers and RVers, but those in the arts community and
the crafts community.

Her talents and experiences truly run wide and deep. From being
the self-called, resident family tech geek to her painting, crocheting and
photogrpahy abilities to living with a chronic illness to having grown up and
worked in a family business to becoming an author, Miki Bennett never has a
dull moment.

She lives in Charleston, South Carolina with her husband, Jeff
and their little dog Emma. They are a blended family with three grown children
thus consider themselves empty nesters.

Miki also lives with a rare, incurable, invisible illness called
Mastocytosis in which patients can have life threatening allergic type
reactions to the simplest of things. She is also a cancer survivor after
undergoing treatment for Uterine Cancer in 2002. She is now on a mission to
help others who deal with “invisible diseases”: the patient looks fine to the
outside world but can be dealing with debilitating symptoms - something that
can be very stress producing for the patient both mentally and physically. Miki
believes it is her creativity through writing and art that helps her deal with
a chronic illness in a positive, uplifting way.

How does
a first-class, five-star, travel blogger widen her horizons? With a few words
from one of her loyal readers.

Kate has
always loved writing about the best in food, nightlife, and accommodations
around the world. In fact, she’s never had to “rough it” in her vast array of
travels. But that changes when she’s publicly challenged into hitting the road
just like an average person.

Though
terrified of everything she doesn’t know about camping, things become brighter
when she bumps into fellow camper, Brandon. Seeming to run into one another at
each campground, it gets harder for Kate to ignore the sparks between them.

As Kate
travels west in her motor home, she experiences a brand new kind of adventure:
tackling bathhouses, tarantulas, and even bats! But as she learns to appreciate
the great outdoors, Kate starts to wonder if this might also be an adventure of
the heart.

“I’m glad to see that you have confidence in yourself. That is always a good thing when you are
learning something new. And I can tell
that you have never own an RV or probably even slept in a tent,” Brandon said
as he fell in step beside her.

“Why does everyone keep
saying that? I feel like I’m display or something.” Kate was now feeling embarrassed once more.

“Hey, at some point all of us were in your
shoes. Well, maybe not your high heels.”

Kate felt the color
drain from her face. He saw her last
night. Her wobbly, awkward walk to her
camper. “What are you talking about?” she said feigning innocence.

“Last night I thought
you were pretty drunk till I saw you all dressed up with those heels on. It’s a wonder you didn’t sprain your ankle
the way you were walking last night. It
seemed like you must have hit every piece of gravel on the road.” Brandon chuckled once more and Kate blushed
now as they continued their walk toward the store.

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Sunday, October 23, 2016

The Dead Held Hands - In the ruins of a distant castle, a light comes on signaling the end of everything...

Kabyl, son of the famed Captain Davage, discovers the world around him is not as it seems. His beloved is a haunted woman full of secrets. She looks over shoulder at things that are not there and dread's the dark. What is she so afraid of? The Dead hold hands, they say, and lend the living their power. Will they hold hands for Lord Kabyl as he ventures into the unknown?

The Machine - The Temple of the Exploding Head Saga continues...

Lord Kabyl of Blanchefort, his cousins Sarah and Phillip and their friend Lord Lon of Probert quest to recover the three pieces of a fabled machine lost for centuries: The Oberphilliax. Their quest will take them beyond the safety of the League to the Xaphan city of Waam where an ancient Black Hat and her vile army of Spectre henchmen await their arrival with great anticipation

The Temple of the Exploding Head - A God In His Temple Is Invincible. An outlaw and evil spirit, the Horned God confronts the gods themselves. From his Temple deep in the ground he is finally ready to act.

Lord Kabyl of Blanchefort returns to his home with the pieces of The Machine in hand. He expects his love, Lady Sammidoran, will return to begin their life together as man and woman at last. However, the Horned God has other ideas and he pursues Lady Sammidoran without pause. As Lord Kabyl seeks to save his love from an insane god, all roads lead to the dreaded Temple of the Exploding Head, where none emerge alive. Elsewhere, Captain Davage and his Countess, Sygillis, find themselves lost deep in enemy territory where the Horned God's horrific servants hold sway. Even if the Captain and Countess manage to return home to Kana, what will they find when they arrive? The Temple of the Exploding Head saga concludes in this action-filled adventure of love and loss. In a place where even the gods fear to tread, how can naught but a tragedy be the outcome?

Ren Garcia is a Science
Fiction/Fantasy author and Texas native who grew up in western Ohio. He has
been writing since before he could write, often scribbling alien lingo on any
available wall or floor with assorted crayons. He attended The Ohio State
University and majored in English Literature. Ren has been an avid lover of
anything surreal since childhood, he also has a passion for caving, urban
archeology and architecture. His highly imaginative "League of Elder"
book series is published by Loconeal Publishing

Friday, October 14, 2016

Rachel grew up in a tiny town in Minnesota. She still lives there with her husband, their four kids, three cats, and a perfectly overweight black lab. She coaches high school speech and theater, rides Arabian horses, reads as much as she can, and writes stories.

In this modern day retelling of Rapunzel, Anya has her books, her photography, and her daydreams. She doesn’t think she needs anything else.

She lives in a house on the edge of town with her adopted mother, who goes to extreme measures to keep her daughter safe. Anya doesn’t even go to school, but instead has a private tutor. Anya tries not to acknowledge her loneliness; she puts her efforts into pleasing her mom, and gives her heart to her stories, secretly wishing for a story of her own.

Then one day at the library, the only place she's allowed to go, she takes a picture of a beautiful boy.

Before long she's lying to her mom, and sneaking out late at night to meet Zander. But Zander wants more than a secret romance. If Anya wants to be with the boy of her dreams, she will have to risk her relationship with the only other person she's ever cared about.

About Me

Hi! I'm a preschool teacher who also manages and owns a small production company for voice acting and our various productions, called The Manga Project. I am also an avid reader, and a writer of fiction, fan fiction, fantasy, some sci-fi, poetry, and general non-sense.
I like to cook and bake a lot, though I usually don't have a lot of time, between producing/directing, teaching, and writing.
I just put out my first publication, The Unknown Elf, and am crossing fingers that it does well.